Link WebHelp to Air Application?

Thanks for sharing the links to the other messages; I've passed them on to my developer to see what he can figure out.

We spent a lot of time working on it today--figuring out how to get help embedded in an app developed with Air--and here's some of the major issues that have cropped up:

1. Using the browser-based Air help: I handed my guy the output files, and he put them into the app. When you hit the help button written into the AIr app, the help launches as a Flash app and looks good. There is a TOC and the search feature works. The problem is that the default topic won't display; the help opens with the topic pane blank (all other areas of the help seem to work just fine). Note: All aspects of the output work fine in local browers, but not Firefox, where I built the files.

2. Using the Webhelp: I handed my guy the output files, and he put them into the app. When you hit the help button written into the Air app, the help launches as Webhelp, and the default topic shows, but there is no TOC in the TOC pane.

3. Tried to launch an Air help app from the help button written into the Air app: Did not work and we went home for the day. (I didn't think this would work anyway.)

I feel like these problems are unique to the Air app, but yet I can't help but think that this shouldn't be so difficult. I believe we can get the separate Air help app to launch fine, but having a separate installer for the help is just something I'm hesitant to want to do. I really want the help to come out of the software, as it should. I realize this is a rhetorical exaggeration, but if the user needs to install and open a separate help tool, why wouldn't she just use the pdf already provided?

Any help or experience notes would be greatly (greatly) appreciated. 

Thanks.

There’s a number of topics in the help about calling webhelp (and on Peter Grainge’s site too – see www.grainge.org<http://www.grainge.org>); but I’m not at all sure how you go about it from within an AIR app.